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Wikidata identifier:
Q2820837
Part of:
Lakeland Arts
Instance of:
museum; art museum
Museum/collection status:
Accredited Museum
Persistent shareable link for this record:
https://museumdata.uk/museums/q2820837/

Collection-level records:

  • Collection overview (Cornucopia)

    Fine Art Collection

    The art collection contains watercolours (2172), prints (1253), paintings (528), drawings (394) and sculpture (75) ranging from the 18th century to contemporary works. The collection of 18th century paintings is particularly strong in works by leading portrait painter George Romney, who served his apprenticeship locally and has work such as ‘The Gower Children’ featured in the collection. Local views and landscapes of the 18th century include works such as pair of views of Windermere by P J de Loutherbourg. Another local artist, Daniel Gardner is also featured in the collection together with works by Allan Ramsay and Thomas Lawrence. The significant collection of watercolours dates mainly to the second half of the 18th and the first half of the 19th centuries and typically includes a number of local topographical views and landscapes including works such as ‘The Falls of Lodore’ by John Robert Cozens. Other artists represented in the collection include Dayes, Hearne, Cristall, Varley, Copley Fielding, Constable, Frederick Nash, Hills and Severn. British works by Turner also feature in the collection (most notably the Devil’s Bridge in the St Gothard Pass, 1804), together with 40 of Ruskin’s drawings and watercolours covering natural history, mountains and topography in Britain and northern Europe. The collection of painting and sculpture from the 20th century collection features three-dimensional works by Hepworth, Jean Arp and Frink and a group of 11 works of national significance by Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) including ‘Flight’, ‘Mier Bitte’, ‘Ambleside YMCA Flag’ and ‘Sculpture on a Bone’.

    Subjects

    Watercolours; Sculpture; Paintings; Fine Art; Drawings; Prints; Western European

    Decorative and Applied Art Collection

    The collection of 18th century furniture includes several rare pieces by Gillows of Lancaster, including a Trou Madame Table of c.1769-1776. The collection of decorative art ranges from studio pottery to furniture by Gillows of Lancaster and other furnishings. The 18th century furniture includes pieces in walnut, mahogany and satinwood and includes important rare pieces made by Gillows of Lancaster. English pottery and porcelain of the 18th century is also represented such as a pair of Wedgwood basalt vase, together with other objets d’art. Arts and Crafts 20th century studio pottery includes ceramics by Bernard Leach and Lucie Rie.

    Subjects

    Furniture; Decorative and Applied Arts

    Costume and Textile Collection

    Costume of the 17th to mid 20th century including local made or worn clothing and also accessories and jewellery.

    Subjects

    Costume and Textile

    Music Collection

    Three musical instruments including a recently restored Manxman piano by Baillie Scott (see Blackwell).

    Subjects

    Music; Musical instruments

    Archives Collection

    Archival material related to the collections and themes.

    Subjects

    Archives

    Source: Cornucopia

    Date: Not known, but before 2015

    Licence: CC BY-NC

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